Article: Carve your heart out. (carved turns in skiing)

February 1987: Geoff Bruce looks down from the chairlift at Boyne, Michigan, and beholds the most incredible set of tracks he has ever seen. Tight, short-radius turns, with no trace of skidding. Geoff, who spent eight years on the U.S. Ski Team during the 1970s, was amazed by the tracks. He'd spent most of his life trying to ski "fast, clean, and tight." * The tracks, however, were not made by a skier. "On my second run," Geoff says today, "I realized it was a guy on a snowboard. I became envious of what a snowboard could do--it was something that I had spent a whole lifetime trying to do." * February 1995: A test demo of next year's skis at Buttermilk, Colorado. Geoff has ...

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